[CQ-Contest] NS RTTY this Thursday

[Ken K6MR]

Greetings Diddlers:

A small group last week, I’m guessing a few spent more time practicing for the WPX.  Welcome to N5KB who dropped by and made a few Qs.

Just a friendly reminder:  Pause just a bit after the last exchange before calling to give the ACK message (or the frantic NR?) a chance to get through.  And if the path to your QSO partner seems a bit weak, give him a fighting chance with a repeat of at least the S/N.  All the funny things that happen in the ether seem to happen at the most inopportune moments!

The upcoming weekend looks to be all CW all of the time with the ARRL DX CW test.  But if you still need a digital fix before the weekend, please join us Thursday evening.

The details for our little get together this week:

Friday,  14 Feb 2020, 0145Z - 0215Z (Thursday, 13 Feb  in NA)
-- 1745 - 1815 PST
-- 2045 - 2115 EST
-- (others in-between those two)
-- 160: Around 1805  (Last two to five minutes seem to be popular…)
-- 80/40/20/15 +84 kHz up from the band edge   <--NOTE
-- Same band dupes ok after 1 intervening Q.
-- 1 kHz QSY rule, otherwise standard Sprint rules
-- Mults per band.
-- 100W power limit

Please visit http://www.ncccsprint.com/rttyns.html for complete rules and links to other info. If you find any problems with the web pages, please let me know so we can get them fixed.

If you would like to receive all the latest info about NS as well as a have a place for comments and questions, sign up for the NS mailing list:  https://groups.io/g/nccc-blue

Contestonlinescore.com has a slot set up for us if you’d like to make sure your logger is talking to the world.  Select NCCC NA RTTY Sprint.

Report scores to 3830scores.com, and join us at 0300Z on 3610 kHz (+/- a few for ongoing groups) for comments and questions (and dinner menus).

Diddle diddle,

Ken K6MR